Mike Foley ran an excellent summer hockey school for young kids at SPA, probably one of best. It was very structured with great emphasis on fundamentals and technique. Video taped the kids, and went over technique and showed each kid things to work on.

Very disciplined, players went to one knee when instructor talked. Gave out hockey cards to certain kids daily. Had a small tournament the last days in groups based on skill level.

Don't know if it is still going, as a lot of the instructors were looking old 10 years ago.

There was a strike in the Burnsville schoole district in the late 70's that caused some kids to transfer to AHA. My senior year a couple of kids who were sophomores came to the team who were pretty darn good. I wonder how good Burnsville would have been then. We also had an assistant coach who was a priest. After I left, they had a couple of good teams that competed with some of the better teams, but not well enough to get noticed. I know that in 1994? they played Mpls Roosevelt for the section championship and lost. The first coach at AHA was Bucky Kendig, then Mike Sack. Not sure after that.

starsalum, same Mike Sack, the history teacher? That would make sense because he has been at AHA for awhile and was a really good hocke player. I think he was an all-american at D3, not sure what school though.

Yes, Mike Sack was a hockey coach for many years. He was an All-American at Augsburg. He also was and I think still is the boys tennis coach. He was an OK coach, he did not have much talent to work with. A lot of players came from Mpls back when I was there, and a few from West Bloomington. A lot of the guys I played with at my grade school in Mpls played in the parkboard league and moved to AHA. The ones that left AHA went to Mpls Central.....Which is where I would have ended up if I went the public school route.

Steve Sertich from Duluth Cathedral tied the Tournament record in 1971 by scoring 5 goals against Breck in a consolation game.Steve scored 3 goals against Crookston Cathedral earlier in a quarterfinal game but his team was defeated for the first time ever in an opening round game 5-3 !Steve then scored another goal against goaltender Bill Lechner to help his team defeat Cretin for the consolation championship 5-2.

The record was set by Phil Hoene also of Duluth Cathedral in 1967 !

This would possibly have set a new record for the tourney with Sertich tallying 9 goals in 3 games at the tourney, unless anyone from Hill did better in 1970 !